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136 matches to Cape Colony
Cape Colony. 1806 British colony. South Africa.
Cape of Good Hope. Bantu. 1652 Dutch. 1814 British Cape Colony. 1910 Province, South Africa.
Dutch East India Company. 1602-1798. Trade, colonies in Orient. Controlled Ceylon, Cape Colony, Jakarta.
Great Trek. 1835-7. Boers leave British Cape Colony, found Natal.
Lesotho. Basutoland. c1800 Basotho kingdom. 1868 British. 1871 Cape Colony. 1884 British colony. 1966 Independent kingdom of Lesotho.
Vienna, Congress. 1814-15. Redrew map of Europe after Napoleon. Prussia gains Rhine, Westphalia. Swiss borders and neutrality confirmed. Netherlands created from Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg. Malta and Cape Colony ceded to Britain. Russia gets Poland. Austria trades Netherlands for north Italy. France reduced to 1792 borders. Metternich.
Altdorfer, Albrecht. c1480-1538. German founder landscape painting.
Amethyst Incident. 1949. Escape of British frigate from China.
Ardon, Mordecai. 1896-1992. Polish/Israeli abstract painter. Jerusalem landscapes.
Ariadne. Daughter of Minos. Gave Theseus the string to escape the Labyrinth.
Barbizon. 19C French objective style of painting landscapes from nature; influenced Impressionists. Millet, Diaz.
Bazaine, Achille. 1811-88. French marshal, surrendered Metz, 1870. Condemned as traitor. Escaped 1874.
Birch, Samuel. 1869-1955. English Cornish landscape painter.
Boucher, Francois. 1703-70. French mythological and landscape painter. Louis XV Rococo Style. Mme de Pompadour favourite. “Decorator of Boudoirs”. Déjeuner 1738.
Brill, Paul. 1554-1626. Flemish Mannerist landscape painter.
Brittany. Inhab c3500BC. Celts. 57BC Rome. 5-6C Britons (Celts) re-settle. 12C Capetian. 1365 Montfort Dukedom. 1532 France.
Brown, Lancelot “Capability”. 1715-83. English landscape architect. Created the definitive “English Garden”: assymmetric, harmonious, accidental. Blenheim. Prior Park.
Bruegel, Jan (Velvet). 1568-1625. Flemish painter of landscape and still life.
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. 1600-81. Spanish dramatist: El divino Orfeo-“Life is a dream” 1635.
Cape Frontier Wars. =Kaffir Wars.
Cape Verde. 1455 Portugal disc, settle w slaves. 1975 Independent rep.
Capek, Karel. 1890-1938. Czech playwright. Rossum’s Universal Robots. -coined term 1920.
Capella, Martianus. 4-5C. Carthaginian liberal arts curriculum. Influential through Middle Ages.
Capernaum. Jesus’ second home and site of miracles.
Capet, Hugh. Hugh Capet.